Clothes-pounder



Patented Oct. 25, I898.

- a. H. RUDENBACH.

CLOTHES POUNDER.

pplication filed Apr. 18, 189R UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

, GEORGE II. RODENBAOH, OF DEVILS LAKE, NORTH DAKOTA.

CLOTH ES-POUNDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 613,019, dated October25, 1898.

Application filed April 18, 1898. Serial No. 678,089. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE H. RODENBAOI-I, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Devils Lake, in the county of Ramsey and State ofNorth Dakota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inClothes- Pounders; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear,and exact description of the invention, such as Will enable othersskilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The invention has relation to clothes-pound ers; and the object is toprovide a device of this character which shall be simple of 0011-struction, durable in use, and comparatively inexpensive of productionand by means of which soiled clothes may be thoroughly cleansed with aminimum expenditure of labor and without splashing the water on theoperator. v

With this object in view the invention consists in certain features ofconstruction and combination of parts, which will be hereinafter fullydescribed and claimed. 4

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a top perspective view of myimproved clothespounder. Fig. 2 is a bottom plan view of the same, andFig. 3 is a vertical sectional view on line 00 w of Fig. 2.

In said drawings, ldenotes the body of the pounder, which consists of ashort cylindershell having a bottom 2 secured to its inner wall at apoint above the lower edge of the shell andpreferably bulged downward,as shown in Fig. 3.

4 denotes concentric rings secured to the under side of the bottom ofthe shell and having their lower ends projecting downwardly.

5 denotes apertures formed in the bottom between the sides of the shelland the outer concentric ring, and 6 denotes openings formed in theupper edges of the concentric rings.

7 denotes splasher-cups secured within the shell above the openings inits bottom, and 8 denotes a handle-socket having its lower end securedto the bottom and its upper end braced by bars 9.

1O denotes the handle.

In operation the device is brought against the clothes to be Washed witha pounding action, and on each downstroke the water will be forcedthrough the openings in the concentric rings out between the outerconcentric ring and the side of the shell and thence upwardly throughthe holes in the bottom of the shell into the cups arranged immediatelyabove said openings. Thus the operator will be prevented from beingsplashed and the suction overcome in the act of raising the pounder fromthe clothes, as the air will be allowed to pass down through theopenings in the bottom of the shell and into the spaces between theconcentric rings.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is-

A clothes-pounder comprising, in combination, the outer shell having aconcave bottom secured to its interior walls at a point above the lowerend of v the shell and formed with apertures near its edge or at itsjunction or connection with said shell, concentric bands secured to saidbottom within the area circumscribed by the apertures and provided withopenings in theirupper edges, the lower edges of said bands being in thesame plane as the lower edge of the shell, and splasher-cups securedwithin said shell, to the sides thereof at points directly above theopenings in the concave bottom, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of twosubscribing witnesses.

GEORGE H. RODENBAOI-I.

Witnesses:

J. W. FULTON, (J. H. SMITH.

